The two followed Agent Coulson out of the plane and were hit with the ocean air. The atmosphere was much like that of the military base they left from. Agents scurying about focused on their jobs. Aria made the mental note that not much had changed since she had left. A women with short red hair strode up to the three of them. Aria remembered the face from the files. She couldn't remember her name but she knew she was one very lethal, and just the way she walked seemed to confirm that.
"Agent Coulson, they need inside." The women spoke. Not even a moment later Coulson split away from the group. "I'm Agent Romanoff, Natasha is fine though." She told the two. She must have known about Coulson's love for Captain America when she asked Steve if Coulson asked him to sign his Captain America trading cards. Apparenty Coulson was very proud of the set.
Aria saw Steve's head begin to turn and she noticed what he did. There was a man who seemed to be trying to keep out of the way of all the other agents. His posture made her assume he wished he was about 10 times smaller and away from this place. She smirked a bit as she realized she wasn't the only one who didn't really want to be here. An alarm started going off in Aria's head as she realized who the man was. It was difficut to forget his face from the news.
"Word is you can find the cube." Steve had approached the man, Bruce Banner.
"Is that the only word on me."He'd replied. Aria knew what he was talking about. Only a few years prior he had an accident resulting him turning into a giant green monster of rage when angry. Which led to part of New York, well, being destroyed.
"Only word I care about." Aria wanted to groan. Steve so far seemed like the most perfect human being. Everything about him. He didn't let his flaws show and Aria was just waiting for him to slip up on something. Nobody was perfect.
"Uh hi, I'm Aria." She gave a little wave, feeling out of place. She wasn't exactly a social butterfly, so today wasn't exactly easy for her. Exspecially with Captain Perfect Pants next to her. She'd much rather be holed up in a hotel room trying to figure out her next hunt. At least she knew during hunts what she was dealing with most of the time. Not to mention the fact that the only other people she tended to wor with were the Winchesters. After having to sit through an airplane ride with strangers Aria knew that the next few days would not be a stroll in the park for her anxiety and trust issues.
"Gentlemen, Aria," The woman from before, Natasha, strode over. "you may want to go inside, it's going to get a little hard to breathe." As she said that the sides of the aircraft carrier began to move and rumble. The agents all around them had began to run around, securing everything was was on deck. It would have seemed like organized chaos to those who never witnessed it before.
"Is this a submarine?" Stee questioned. Aria felt her stomach flip. If there was anything worse than planes, a submarine would be it. At least if a plane failed she could easily make her way to safety in the air. The guilt of being able to survive wouldn't last too long, she had been living with the guilt of surviving where other people did not since she was a child. Underwater, if that thing failed she would have no way out. No way to safety. She would be just as doomed as everyone else.
"They want me submerged in a pressurized metal container?" Bruce laughed referring to the danger of the him possibly getting angry. Aria tried to keep the blood draining from her face as she realized the situation just go worse. She felt like an ass but it was true.
The three newbies stepped over toward the ledge and watched as enormous engines began to rise out of the water. The rumbling had know evolved into a roar that caused everyone to yell in order to be heard. Aria began to calm down as she realized they weren't going down. The ship was slowly starting to go up. This wasn't a submarine at all. She wasn't even sure there was a word for it. The carrier flying wasn't a great improvement to being a submarine with Bruce on boared but it was better than before.
"Oh this is much better." Bruce let out a sarcastic snort. The ship began to rise higher and Aria felt the loose pieces of her braid begin the fly around her.
The group followed Natasha to the bridge, hurrying before the carrier got too high. Aria was surprised at how smoothly the ride up was. She had expected to fall or trip at least once but she could hardly tell it was moving. It wasn't much different than being on a boat. As they followed Natasha Aria made sure to memorize every turn and every door. Knowing exits was essential. She would feel even more on edge thatn she already was if she didn't have the directions burned into her memory.
"You don't seem to be quite the talker." Aria was pulled out of her thoughs once more by Steve. She looked up to be met with a sincere face and was taken by surprised. It was rare to see someone who really cared in the world today. Then she remembered he wasn't from now. Everything about him was still stuck in the 40s.
"No neccessarily." She replided briskly. It wasn't that she wanted to be rude to the poor guy but the last thing she needed was her anxiety to start to play out. She would talk when she was ready. Aria broke contact with him to try and end the conversation. She glanced over at Bruce, who was walking along side them. Steve tried to come up with a way to keep the conversation going but he snesed Aria wouldn't be to thrilled about that.
The four finally made it to the bridge and were met with computers. Tons of computers being manned by S.H.I.E.L.D agents, tracking nearly everything around the world. The whole opperation of it all seemed to run smoothly and everyone was at there specific station, it didn't seem that there was much time for joking around here. Aria looked over and saw a man decked out in Matrix clothing. She quickly reconized him as Nick Fury It had been years since she had last seen him and he hadn't aged a bit. Eye patch and all. She saw Steve pass money to him and continue in the other direction. She didn't really want to question it. Banner stayed toward the back of the room, deciding it was the best place to stay out of the way.
"Nice to see you again, Aria." Fury stood next to her.
"I wish I could say the same." This may have been the first time she was physicaly speaking to him but she had seen him times before. While S.H.I.E.L.D was testing her and pushing her to her limites, she would see him from affair, occationally watching over her. It never struck her as 'nice'.
"You haven't changed while away." Fury walked away and approached Bruce. Aria wanted to strangle someone or use someone as a moving target for her knives. How could he have the audacity to even act the way he did. She surpressed the urge to kill someone by taking a few breathes and trying to think of nice things, like the smell of old records and books.
"Doctor, thank you for coming." Fury and Bruce shook hands. Aria had to hand it to Bruce, if she was him, the hulk would already be tearing down the carrier. But then again, he had probably trained himself not to get angry over stupid asshole spies.
"Thanks for asking nicely." He answered. "So, how long am I staying?" Aria began to wonder thes same thing. How long did she have to stay with S.H.I.E.L.D until she could go back to her normal life. Well it wasn't a normal life to the average person, but hunting was normal to her.
"Once we get the Tesseract you're in the clear." Fury simply stated.
"Where are you with that." Banner was very calm and collected and Aria could feel that radiating off of him. Pouting and feeling sorry for herself wasn't going to do any good so she might as well try to be calm and civil like him. That would take alot of work and concentration. She also noticed Natasha looking at a screen with a mans face on it. She read the name "Clint Barton" on it. She scratched her brain to remember that name back from the files. Loki had some kind of spell on him and Natasha must have wanted him back.
"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet." Coulson stepped up to answer Bruce's question. "Cell phones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite it's eyes and ears for us."
"That's still not going to find them in time." Natasha spoke out with a look of concern on her face.
"You have to narrow the field. How many spectrometers do you have access to?" Bruce's face grew more serious. Aria glanced over to Steve who seemed even more lost than she was. Laptops, cellphones, and satellites were all new to the poor guy.
"How many are there?" Fury asked
"Call every lab you know, tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them to for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm based on cluster recongnition. At least we can rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?" While he spoke he started to take off his jacket and roll up his sleeves. He was ready to get down to business. Aria was now completely lost. She never had a totally "proper" education and only paid attention to the basics while at schools. Science was also never her strong suit.
"Agent Romanoff, would you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory please." Fury directed Natasha.
"You're gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys." Natasha said as the two left the room head toward the lab. Steve walked over toward Aria and she kept in a sigh. The poor guy was going to try and start another conversation with her. Well I might as well put in a little effort. She thought.
"I'm assuming all of this isn't normal to you?" He came up and leaned against the railing that separated them and the S.H.I.E.L.D agents working on the computers.
"Well not really, no." She hopped up and sat on the railing hoping the ship wouldn't randomly swurve causing her to fall on the computers. "My normal isn't exactly "normal"" She used her fingers to signal quotes around the word. Steve made a face urging her to expand on her statement. Being the perfect soldier he was, he had probably already read the file on her S.H.I.E.L.D had given him. She didn't understand why he wanted her to say it. "I wouldn't count hunting and killing supernatural stuff normal."
"Didn't I read that you helped stop the apocalypse." Steve pointed out, confirming that he did read her file. Aria's face went blank. If that was in her file, then S.H.I.E.L.D knew about the apocalypse. They knew the world was ending and she didn't see them do anything about it. Those fuckers. She thought
"I hardly helped, I mean hell, Lucifer killed me. I was only lucky to be brought back. My friend Sam," She paused, "it was Sam that saved the day." She didn't want to explain or even touch upon the subject. After everything Sam did that day, he didn't get anything good out of it. The epitimy of selfless action. Aria quickly decided to change the topic. "I guess S.H.I.E.L.D just doesn't want normal." She was referring to Steve being from 1940 and Bruce's, anger problems.
"You're telling me." The Captain agreed. Agent Coulson walked over and it was obvious to Aria he was fanboying. She tried to keep a straight face and not laugh but a smile formed over her lips. She could hear him asking Rodgers to sign his Captain America trading cards. He even stated how they were vintage. She tried to sneak a peek at Steve's expression but she didn't want to seem to obvious about it.
"We got a hit, 67 percent match." One of the men at the computers stated while the computer was letting out a beeping noise. He kept restating the percent as the computer changed it, the number getting larger each time. Agent Coulson left Steve's side to go over to the man asking for the location of the possible Loki sighting. He was in Stuttgart, Germany.
"He's not exactly hidding." She heard the man say. Aria got a feeling in her gut. Loki was up to something and he was going to put on a show.
"Captain, Aria, you're up." Fury stated.
Disclaimer: I do not own The Avengers or Supernatural, just Aria.
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